Trevor Watts and Jamie Harris

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Trevor Watts
Since the 1960s Trevor Watts has been at the forefront of many innovations as a saxophone player, percussionist and composer. He is the only founder member of The Spontaneous Music Ensemble still left – other founder members were John Stevens & Paul Rutherford, and later members included Kenny Wheeler, Dave Holland, Evan Parker and Derek Bailey. His Amalgam group began in 1967 with bassist Barry Guy and trombonist Paul Rutherford, and he was a founder member of Barry Guy’s London Jazz Composers Orchestra. He was the instigator behind the Moire Music Group and The Drum Orchestra, which involved musicians from North and South Africa and Latin America. He has played with many great US jazz musicians, including Don Cherry, Archie Shepp, Steve Lacy, Kent Carter, Rashied Ali, Steve Swallow and Bobby Bradford.

http://www.trevorwatts.co.uk
https://soundcloud.com/moire-watts

Jamie Harris
Between 2003 and 2007 Jamie played in an acclaimed duo with Trevor Watts and was also during this time involved in a trio with Watts and the Mexican percussionist and inventor of the Urukungolo Gibran Cervantes. The Watts/Harris duo performed widely (USA, Dominican Rep, Brazil, Mongolia, Highlands and Islands of Scotland), and there are three CD releases from this period to date.

In 2019 the Watts/Harris duo return with a new set of rhythmical charged composition .

Plus playing for the first time as a quartet…..

Ron Caines: saxophones
Alice Eldridge: cello
Gus Garside: double bass
James Parsons: drums

Ron Caines was, in the late 1960s, a founder member of pioneering UK Prog-psych group East of Eden, and has been a key member of improvising collectives in both Bristol and Brighton.

Alice Eldridge is a cellist and researcher working across sound, technology and ecology in scientific and creative domains. She is 1/4 of all female multi-arts collective, Collectress, 1/2 of Feedback Cell, an ongoing experiment in open-ended hybrid luthiary and a regular at John Russell’s Fete Quaqua and Brighton’s Safehouse.

Gus Garside has been active as a musician since the 1970s. He is a mainstay of Safehouse, and is a member of the long-running string trio, Arc, with Sylvia Hallett and Danny Kingshill and of the electro-acoustic duo, Static Memories.

James Parsons drums with In Threads, God’s Teeth And The Interstellar Tropics and Bare Springs among others, and is also known as a dab hand in the comics department.

Plus

Wildcard Quartet

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